The second volume is the novellae of R. Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi (Ron, Rabbenu Nissim, c. 1310–c. 1375). It too was printed from a manuscript in the collection of R. Zerahia Azulai. It has approbations from R. Abraham Ashkenazi and R. Meir ben Eisik Auerbach. At the end of the volume is a list of the other manuscripts in the library and the comment that whomever wishes to acquire one should contact them. There is a depiction of the Western Wall on the last page. R. Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi ), one of the most important Spanish talmudists. R. Nissim's family originated in Cordova and settled first in Gerona, where he is thought to have been born, and then in Barcelona, which became his permanent place of residence. Few biographical details are known of him. He never held any official rabbinical post, even though in fact he fulfilled all the functions of a rabbi and dayyan in his community. Furthermore, many takkanot enacted in Spain originated with him, and his reputation as an authoritative posek was such that he received queries from as far as Erez Israel and Syria. He is also known to have served as a physician in the royal palace. His main teacher, apart from his father, was Perez ha-Kohen, with whom he was in close correspondence; R. Nissim even assisted him to become accepted as rabbi of Barcelona (after 1349). It seems that R. Nissim's main activity in his community was as head of the Barcelona yeshivah. Among his chief pupils were R. Isaac b. Sheshet Perfet, who frequently quotes him, mostly anonymously, R. Hasdai Crescas, R. Joseph Habiba, and R. Abraham Tamakh. One of his main works is a commentary on the halakhot of Isaac Alfasi to the Talmud. It seems that all the parts of this work have been preserved, and all have been published on the margin of Alfasi's commentary beginning with its first printed editions down to the present day.